"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."

-- Jean Baudrillard

#America Quotes #Society Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“No libraries, no progress.”
“For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield
“I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.”
“The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way to use material from one occupation for the other. It's like going through working a day job, this is so dumb to say, but you know how Julian Schnabel made those crockery paintings while he was working as a short-order cook? It's like that, using what is around, transforming that to create meaning and make art. Trying to take nothing and make... something.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of Buddha's teachings, and all are equally precious; they are just different presentations.”
“America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.”
“Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.”

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